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Tag Archives: air conditioning
How To Always Win With Customers!
My last few posts have been centered around customer relations.To conclude this series, I offer the following that was something I tried to teach my Techs and follow myself. First, we need to ask the question, “WHAT IS A CUSTOMER?” … Continue reading
Ten Commandments of Human Relations
I was recently going through some of the boxes I packed up when I retired in January and came across this article that I used both when I was a service manager for a contractor and when I became the … Continue reading
Flood Damaged HVAC Equipment
The South Central, Midwest, and the Northeast have seen record rainfall in the last month and, especially, the last couple of days. Rivers are over flood stage. Sewer systems could not keep up with all the rain and sewers backed … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, HVAC Tech Support
Tagged air conditioning, application, commissioning, CUSTOMER RELATIONS, duct work, education, flood stage, HVAC equipment, HVAC systems, IAQ, installation, maintenance, retrofit, Safety, service, system replacement, Technician Competence, technology, training, troubleshooting
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Proper Air Conditioning Sizing
I recently received this question from a homeowner who came upon the blog site: Mike I read some of your articles online and am asking for your opinion. I replaced my antiquated system with a new system. I have a 1250 … Continue reading
THANK YOU!
A couple of milestones were hit recently — in April, this blog turned 4 years old. It was started in April 2011. Even more amazing is, as of this writing, there have been 400,312 views of the various articles from … Continue reading
Plenum Returns – Good or Bad?
I recently had this question sent to me —“What are your thoughts regarding plenum returns verses duct returns. One of the obvious is cost but how about system performance.” Great question! In my opinion, I have always said that … Continue reading
Indoor Coil Leaks
With A/C season officially here, I have been asked to address an issue that has been around our industry for a long time now and that is indoor coil leaks also known as formicary corrosion. Indoor coil corrosion failures are an … Continue reading
Air Conditioning and Humidity Control — Comments from Readers
This was fast – already have had a few suggestions and responses. Thank you to the responders. One thing I did not go into was “controls” other than the economizer and this is what the responders all made suggestions about. … Continue reading
Posted in HVAC Tech Support
Tagged air conditioning, application, cooling, education, service, Technician Competence, technology, training, troubleshooting
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Air Conditioning and Humidity Control
I recently received this question from one of this site’s readers: “Is it a good or bad idea to leave the ahu fan on in a commercial system?This facility is a bank and is experiencing a higher than normal moisture … Continue reading
Posted in HVAC Tech Support
Tagged air conditioning, application, cooling, ecomomizer, enthalpy, free cooling, IAQ, installation, service, Technician Competence, technology, training, troubleshooting
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I must be doing something right!
Back in April 2011, I started writing on this blog site as a way to help my local contractors and dealers. Most of the posts were based on issues these persons were experiencing and this was a good forum to … Continue reading →